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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture by Mrinalini Tankha as part of the fall A
nthropology Symposium. Free and open to the public.\n\n"The Heads and Tails
of Cuba's Dual Economy"\n\nThis talk explores the rise and imminent fall o
f Cuba’s dual currency system and illustrates how monetary reform becomes a
political instrument to protect state sovereignty and socialist state powe
r. It also discusses the diverse strategies and tactics Cubans deploy in th
eir currency practices to overcome defaults in socialist state provisioning
and to access new avenues for private accumulation resulting from economic
liberalization and foreign flows to the island. Moreover\, it shows how Cu
bans in their social practices of money strategically invoke and rework soc
ialist ideologies of reciprocity\, social solidarity and collective struggl
e to legitimize illicit activities like pilfering and morally cleanse pursu
its of private profit\, as economic incentives and honorable intentions do
not line up neatly in a shortage economy.\n\nMrinalini Tankha is an economi
c and applied anthropologist at Portland State University. In her research\
, Dr. Tankha examines macroeconomic monetary policy and everyday sociocultu
ral practices of money in Cuba to understand the broader confrontations of
its official socialist ideology with shifting consumption patterns\, hybrid
business practices\, rising labor hierarchies and widespread illicit activ
ities. Her work also situates Cuba’s current postsocialist transition withi
n past histories of decolonization\, economic instability and struggles ove
r sovereignty in Latin America and the Caribbean. Based on archival and eth
nographic research conducted over a period of ten years\, I am currently co
mpleting a book manuscript titled The New Cuban Counterpoint: Money\, Value
and Sovereignty in Post-Soviet Havana.
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LOCATION:Eliot Hall\, 103
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SUMMARY:Anthropology Symposium: Mrinalini Tankha
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URL:https://events.reed.edu/event/anthropology_symposium_mrinalini_tankha
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